Bloc Party, Kaiser Chiefs, Bat for Lashes on Xfm Comp
The 10-year anniversary celebration continues for UK radio station Xfm. Following up on the station's documentary series from this past fall is Xfm Debut Sessions, a two-disc compilation of tracks recorded either at Xfm studios or station-sponsored live shows over the last decade. Universal will release the comp on January 14.The first disc of Debut Sessions is called The Class of 2007 and exclusively features tracks from last year, including tunes by Bat for Lashes, Kate Nash, the Wombats, the Horrors, Good Shoes, and the Rumble Strips.
Debut Sessions' second disc is titled The Best of a Decade and takes the wider view, with songs from Bloc Party, Doves, Keane, the Libertines, Kaiser Chiefs, Hard-Fi, Babyshambles, Elbow, and the Magic Numbers.
Xfm Debut Sessions:
Disc one: The Class of 2007:
01 Jack Peñate: "Torn on the Platform"
02 Kate Nash: "Foundations"
03 The Pigeon Detectives: "I'm Not Sorry"
04 Jamie T: "Sheila"
05 Good Shoes: "Morden"
06 The Maccabees: "First Love"
07 The Rumble Strips: "Girls and Boys in Love"
08 Hot Club de Paris: "Sometimes It's Better Not to Stick Bits of Each Other Into Each Other"
09 Mr Hudson & the Library: "Too Late"
10 Bat for Lashes: "What's a Girl to Do?"
11 Calvin Harris: "Acceptable in the 80s"
12 The Horrors: "Count in Fives"
13 The Twang: "Either Way"
14 Noisettes: "Sister Rosetta"
15 Enter Shikari: "Jonny Sniper"
16 The Enemy: "Away From Here"
17 The Wombats: "Backfired at the Disco"
18 The View: "Same Jeans"
Disc two: The Best of a Decade:
01 The Fratellis: "Chelsea Dagger"
02 The Automatic: "Monster"
03 Bloc Party: "Banquet"
04 Kaiser Chiefs: "Oh My God"
05 Hard-Fi: "Hard to Beat"
06 Babyshambles: "Killamangiro"
07 Editors: "Munich"
08 Nine Black Alps: "Unsatisfied"
09 The Magic Numbers: "Forever Lost"
10 Keane: "Everybody's Changing"
11 Razorlight: "Vice"
12 Kasabian: "Processed Beats"
13 The Libertines: "What a Waster"
14 Elbow: "Newborn"
15 Starsailor: "Alcoholic"
16 Doves: "A House"
17 Embrace: "All You Good Good People"
18 Stereophonics: "Local Boy in the Photograph"
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